投错胎

投错胎

Literally means:

be wrongly reincarnated

Actually means:

be born in a poor family

投胎 refers to reincarnation. It is believed superstitiously that after a person or an animal dies, its spirit enters matrices and is reborn as anothe person or animal.

The phrase means having chosen the wrong matrix and being born in an impoverished family. It is often used to lament that one was not born in a welloff family.

投胎，迷信的说法认为，人或动物死后，灵魂投某个母体转生为另一个人或动物。

投错胎，选错了转生的母体，出生在贫苦的家庭里。多用于感叹没有出生在经济条件比较好的人家。